Rail-anchor.



'1. E. McNEIL.

H RAH. ANCHOR. APPLICATION FILED JULY 19I5.

1,165,198. Patented Dec. 21, 1915.

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JAMES E. McNEIL, or Los ANGELES, cAmroaumfi RA IL-ANoHoR Applicationfiled July 6, 1915. Serial No. 38,130

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J AMES E. MGNEIL, acitizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county ofLos Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Bail- Anchors, of which the following is aspecification. a

This invention relates to improvements in rail anchors or anti-railcreeping devices for v railway. rails, and it is an object oftheinvention to provide a device of this character in which meansgripped upon the rail may be'so connected with the ties of the road bedas to distribute the anchoring strain over an ample portion of said roadbed, to insure a positive holding of the devices and the consequentprevention of any creeping action in the rails.

It is also an object of the inventionto provide one or more railgripping members and one or more anchoring straps or bars which may befastened to any desired number of tiesin the road bed upon either orboth sides of the said gripping devices.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification: Figure1 is a top plan'view of a portion of one side of a railway road bedshowing rails thereon and an anchoring or anti-rail creeping meansapplied thereto. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of one of the rail grippingdevices and a portion of one of the securing bars or straps being shownas fastened thereto, and the whole being upon an enlarged scale. Fig. 3

is a vertical transverse sectional view taken upon the line 33 of Fig.2. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view upon a reduced scale showing amodified form of the rail gripping means.

The device of the present invention is designed to afford an anti-railcreeping device or anchoring means which may be clamped upon a railwayrail at any point along its length, without any change or preparation ofthe rail, and which may be so connected with the road bed, andparticularly to the ties thereof that it will be firmly held against anycreeping action in the rail, the

Specification of Letters Patent.

jection 11 is of the bifurcated pro holding strain bein distributed overa con siderable portion o fthe road bed, whereby' no excessive straincomes upon any one particular tie. I v

The details and features of this invention will now be more particularlydescribed reference being had to the said drawing in which 5 indicates arail engaging member, 6 bolts for holding the same in place and 7 astrap, bar or rod for anchoring the said member and connecting it withthe ties of the road bed. The member 5 is provided with an elongatedrail. engaging portion Patented Dec. 21, 1915. y

having upper and IoWerflanges'jS and 9 forming a groove flange of therailway rail ld, The ends of the said rail engaging portion are formedwith apertures therein adapted to receive the bolts 6. The saidapertures are so arranged that the bolts 6 will come close to the undersurface of the rail, preferably touching the same as shown in Fig. 2.The lower flange- 9 is preferably widened near the ends thereof andadjacent to the bolts (3 ,to give the member a good pnrchaseluponthe'bottom' I of the rail and thus more firmly hold the said member inposition. The member 5 also has a bifurcated projection 11 thebifurcation extending in a horizontal plane and being adapte o receivethe ends or intermediate portions of one or more hold-. ing bars orstraps 7. The bifurcated protures at 12 and 13 in the upper and lowerportions thereof to receive a bar securing bolt 14.

one 01 lllOl'G openings provided with suitable aper-' The said bar isalso provided with 15 for receiving said I to'receive the edge of the Ibolt ll when it is tobe secured in place in the bifurcation of themember 5; The bolts 6 may be secured to the -ot-hervsidc of the railbase by any suitable or desired means,

and preferably by engaging a rail gripping member 16. The said member-16 is quite similar to the member 5 with the exception ection thereon,and is provided with an upper flange, 17overhanging the upper portion ofthe rail base and a lower flange181proje Jting below the said base. Thelower'fiaiige may be wldened near its end portions if desired in themanner described with respect to the lower fiangel) of the member 5. Theends of they said member 16 are perforated to receive bers 5 and .16 mayalso be somewhat strengthened by forming thereon surrounding extensionportions 20 and 21 which fit upon the bolts for a short distance insidethe rail gripping members, the said thickened orvreinforced portionsbeing however, interrupted at 22 and 23 to permit of the bolts 6,touching'the under side of the rail.

The gripping means is anchored or se-v cured to the track ties,preferably by a bar, rod or link 7. Such a member is preferably made inthe form of a flat bar or strap having one or more perforations forreceiving the bolt is that secures it to the bifurcated projection 11,and also provided with a series of perforations 24, preferably spaced soas to come opposite the successive ties in the road bed. By drivingspikes through I said apertures, into the ties the said bar may besecurely fastened to the road bed and firmly hold the rail grippingmember or I members so that the rails cannot move longitudinally.

While each gripping device may have a .strap or securing bar 7 extendingin opposite directions therefrom to any desired distance, it isgenerally desirable to use more than one rail gripping member as shownin Fig. l of the'drawing and to connect the nailed, bolted or otherwisesecured to the intermediate ties.

' It will be observed that, an anchoring means of the type described maybe fastened to any desired number of ties according to the strain likelyto be brought upon the device andthe tendency of the rails to creep atany particular point, grade or location upon a railroad. Of course theanchorage is distributed in this way over a plurality of ties making theanchorage very secure.

It will beunderstood that the minor details of construction in theformation of the parts maybe considerably varied without departing fromthe spirit of this invention and that the mode of gripping the rail maybe altered if desired. Thus asishown in Fig. 4 instead of employing agripping member like the member 16 above referred to, the

' bolts as 25 used for engaging the rail may be provided with hooked endportions 26 adapted to catch upon the flange of the rail,

so that when nuts 27 are tightened upon the straight ends of the bolts,the hooks Will be drawn tightly against the flange of the rail, grippingthe same and firmly fastening the strap engaging member of the device tothe other side of the rail. 7 a

It will be observed that the parts of the device are exceedingly simpleand can be readily applied to the rails of the road by unskilled laborif desired.

The parts can be made cheaply and of any required strength and afford anabsolute anti-rail creeping holding means or anchorage.

It will be evident that a device of this character may be applied toeither side of either rail in a railway and that it may be applied atany pointalong the rails and that as many of the devices may be used asdesired all within the scope of this invention.

What is claimed is:

1. An anti-creeping rail device for railway rails comprising a tie baradapted to be secured to a plurality of ties, and one or more railgripping devices adapted to be connected with the-bar at suitable pointsalong its length.

2. An anti-creeping rail'device comprising an elongated tie engaging baradapted 'to be connected with a plurality of ties and on and having aprojection adapted to be connected with the said tie engaging bar ateither end thereof or at an intermediate point along the length thereoffor preventing the slipping of the rail longitudinally."

4:. An anti-creeping rail anchoring device comprising gripping membershaving flange receiving grooves adapted to fit upon the flanges of arail,.bolts for drawing the said members together and thereby grippingthe rail, one of said members having a projection, and a securing barfastened to said projection adapted to be spiked to one or more ties ofthe road bed.

5. A rail anchoring device comprising flange engaging members havinggrooves therein for fitting upon the base flanges of the rail, bolts fordrawing them tightly against the rail, one of said members having abifurcated extension, an anchoring strap adapted to fit in saidvbifurcated extension, means for securing the said strap therein, thesaid strap having-apertures at suitable intervals whereby holding spikesmay be driven through the same into the ties of the railway road bed.

6. A rail anchoring device having a rail engaging member formed withrail receiving flanges and perforated eye portions -and rail engagingbolts engaging said eye In testimony whereof, I have hereunto setportions and also. engaging the flanges of my hand, in presence of twowitnesses. the rail fonbinding the member upon the JAMES E. MGNEIL.same, the sald member having a later a1 pro- 5 jection and an anchoringstrap fastened to Witnesses:

said projection and adapted to be spiked to CAss LL SEVERANGE, aplurality of ties in a road bed. EARLE R. POLLARD.

Copies of this patent may beobtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

